?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=An+Alternative+View+of+Schizophrenic+Cognition&rft.creator=Snyder%2C+Douglas+M.&rft.subject=Clinical+Psychology&rft.subject=Logic&rft.description=An+alternative+view+to+the+traditionally+held+view+that+schizophrenia+is+characterised+by+severely+disordered+cognition+is+presented.+It+is+possible+that+apparently+self-contradictory+expressions+of+schizophrenics+are+well-formed+communicative+expressions+of+highly+ordered+cognitive+systems.+Building+on+the+premise+that+behavior+is+in+general+communicative%2C+and+using+Godel%C2%92s+Incompleteness+Theorem+from+logic+as+a+model%2C+it+is+shown+that+the+most+characteristic+symptoms+of+schizophrenia+(namely+apparently+self-contradictory+thought%2C+delusions+and+hallucinations)+may+indicate+truths+that+cannot+be+derived+within+highly+ordered+cognitive+systems.&rft.date=1991&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F839%2F3%2Fschizophrenia.pdf&rft.identifier=++Snyder%2C+Douglas+M.++(1991)+An+Alternative+View+of+Schizophrenic+Cognition.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F839%2F